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Local Events | Year | St John's Church/Cemetery |
Ridge track = Lane Cove Rd | 1840 | |
1850 | ||
First Gordon post office | 1860 | |
1865 | Fire destroys school/church | |
1867 | First recorded burials | |
1872 | Original church dedicated | |
Suburb named Gordon | 1879 | |
North Shore railway line open | 1890 | Rev. Edward Crisford appointed |
1893 | Establishment of Parish | |
Rev. R. R. King appointed | ||
Rectory completed | ||
1900 | ||
1903 | Erection of Parish Hall | |
Ku-ring-gai Shire gazetted | 1906 | |
Lane Cove Rd = Gordon Rd | ||
North. Suburbs Cemetery est. | 1922 | Rev. Arnold Conolly appointed |
1924 | Foundation stone for new church | |
Electrification of N. S. railway | 1928 | |
Kur-ing-gai becomes municipality | ||
1931 | Cemetery reinterments begin | |
Sydney Harbour Bridge open | 1932 | |
Gordon Rd becomes Pacific H'way | ||
St John's Avenue widened | 1933 | Rev. William Pyke appointed |
Post-war increased growth in | 1950 | Rev. Roy Wotton appointed |
settlement leads to expansion | 1959 | War Memorial Parish Hall |
of Gordon shopping centre | 1963 | 1st stage of Columbarium |
1972 | Centenary of church | |
1979 | Rev. William Weston appointed | |
1981 | Present church consecrated | |
1990 | Rectory renovated | |
Ku-ring-gai Town Hall open | 1991 | Rev. Cecil Kelley appointed |
Rev. James Pettigrew appointed | ||
Kuring-gai Civic Square open | 1993 | Centenary of Parish |
Portion 1 | Parsonage site | 2 roods | £ 6 |
Portion 2 | Church site | 1 acre | £15 |
Portion 3 | School House site | 2 roods | £ 6 |
Portion 4 | Cemetery site | 1 acre | £10 |
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Total | £37 |
ST JOHN'S CEMETERY, LANE COVE |
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Child's burial, four feet deep | 10s. Od. |
Burial in a Common Grave, 6 ft. deep | 12s. 6d. |
(clergyman 5s. — gravedigger 7d. 6d.) | |
Fence around any grave | 10s. Od. |
Headstone 5s.; Footstone 5s. | 10s. Od. |
Permission to make Brick Grave | 10s. Od. |
Adams family |
Laing, (Rev) Alan |